The Arizona champion., 1887-05-07
CONCERNING WOOL.
Strong Reply to "wool Dealers" Letter In the Albuquerque "Democrat," from a saa Francisco Wool Merchant.

SAN FRANCISCO, May ad, ISS7. .--Ou
 attention has been recently called t,
 a letter of "Wool Dealer," published
 Tn the Albuquerque Democrat, tn, lobject of which seems to be an ex 1 pression of dissatisfaction at Sar
 Francisco and her merchants fol
 their energetic efforts to retain thei,
 trade and attract increased business
 and thereby increase the city's com.
 mercial importance.
 "Wool Dealer" makes no point,
 worthy of special comment, vet we
 thlnk we can say a few words to Ari.
 zona and New Mexico wool grow
 CTS, who may have read the letter,
 that will be of some value, as it may
 help them to arrive at the conclusion
 that San Francisco is not bad place
 to ship wool to. "Wool Dealer" IS
 not quite sincere when he says: "The
 prosperity of the sheep raiser IS my
 prosperity" If he was he must have forgotten that New Mexico could
 soon get such sheep as would shear
 and net as much as he figures Cali.
 fornia's aocks yield. If, in place of
 'shying brick" at San Francisco.
 he had gone to work and organized
 the energetic business men of AIbu- querque into a "bombarding" com mittee and made war on high freiphts
 he would have done something to identity himself with the wool grow CTS interests; and if the "bombard- ing committee had gone step fur ther and organized shooting club to "shoot" out all the worthless sheen that yield 3H lbs wool, worth Aac. Tn place of 7 lbs, netting ST, per head, then he would have paved the way for greater share of prosperity for himself and New Mexico. California. Tn its early history, had just such stock, but they are things of the past. Arizona did better from tte start, by introducing the very best breeds of sheep, and the result speaks for itself We sold last year four or five hundred thousand pounds of Arizona wool for MessrS. Daggs Bros. & Co.,, Prentice, May, Humphreys, Fulton, Tappan, Hull, and many others, and we are safe Tn saying the fleeces averaged nearly 7 lbs, and something like st| tor ilceIes, net, so that, al all events. whatever arguments or figures ar. contained in "Wool Dealers" letter. they have no application 10 Arizona. We think "WooI Dealer" is sincere when h. says "high freIghts or low ireights are all the same to hlll. What he really has most interest in is I1aO. priced wool. Nov, this is hot what san Francisco wants. She wants wool and kow treights, and the very committee of her wool men commented upon in "Wool 'Dealer'S" letter have accomplished wonders since they took the matter of freightS in hand aE the lneeting refer red to, and Albuquerque might have accomplished relatively as much for New Mexico if she ''girded up her loins."
 Arizona and N2w Mexico can t2. day ship their wool to San Francisco tor from Se.3o to $2.5o per 100 tor Iherea6outs) m place Of having to pay s4,Io per 100 to PhiIadelphia-which ! Is no market after the wool reaches there. From San Francisco east, our wool shippers can send wool as low as Sio per ton per sal, so per steamer via. Panaml, and by the 10th If this month it Is more than proba- 1 ole the railroad people will take wool | sast for S2o to S25 per ton. AT pres | ent they are taking 1t for Sr.oo per 100. Now if San Francisco has suc- | ,eeded in securing lower rates either l way to say nothing of the double mar 1 Iet outlet for wools from Arizona and l other sections, we are sure these same | wool sections have no cause to con- plain.
 So far as Arizona vools are con- ,erned, freight rates from here ,ast cut no figure, because our local courlhg mills, of which we have ten 'r eleven with a capacity of over 100, 1000 lbs. per day, are at all times
 custom trade for these wools. No lty east or west has such local facili- les Tn this respect, hence the Arizona 'ool grower can mors clearly under tand why 1t is, that Arizona wool, fl lean and well conditioned, netts so cod result in this market.
 The fact is, we offer Arizona the est market for her wool clip, be- ause we have neglected no interest isentlal to this end, whether it was ghtlng freights and ia res, or greedy 'ool spectators. :
 This letter is written with kindest 'eilngs for "Wool Dealer" our only esire being to give "facts and fig- res' as they relate to Arizona wool om ,. F. standpoint. Arizona's lvancement Is source of great sat / faction to California, because e, of California, look upon ( rlzona as younger sister, [ on to be sister state, and by I ght of location, soil, climate, taste |
 her people, her mining interests ? Id business relationship of long !" we claim not only this rcla- ? onship but we claim the right to do lslness with her because we know etty well how she would like to we 1t done and think we know just w to do 1t, ard we know and think 'lzona knows that California will j.